Amphiarthrosis
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| Diagrammatic section of a symphysis. | |
| Gray's | subject #70 285 |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | a_31/12127217 |
In Amphiarthroses (slightly movable articulations), the contiguous bony surfaces are either:
- symphysis: connected by broad flattened disks of fibrocartilage, of a more or less complex structure, as in the articulations between the bodies of the vertebrae.
- syndesmosis: united by an interosseous ligament, as in the inferior tibiofibular articulation.
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